[ArsTechnica] RIAA and ISPs to police your traffic this summer

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During a panel discussion held for US publishers this week, RIAA chairman Cary Sherman said his association and a number of ISPs—including AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable, and Verizon—will begin policing traffic to crack down on piracy starting this summer. […]

The system involves major labels monitoring BitTorrent and other peer-to-peer networks for copyright infringement, and then reporting that infringement to ISPs, who will monitor their networks for the transgressors. […]

Once an ISP has determined that you’re accessing pirated material, there will be an « Initial Education step » in which customers are informed that they’re engaging in an illegal act. A customer may get one or two of these education notices and, if the pirating doesn’t stop, they’ll be issued another warning. If that doesn’t take, the ISP will issue a Mitigation Measure Copyright Alert, which could involve throttling or curtailing the connection, although it won’t yet lead to a total cut off. […]

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2012/03/riaa-and-isps-to-police-your-traffic-starting-july-12.ars